At 3 years, Agent still outshined uncoated balloons. Registry data show rapid uptake of the DCB in the year after its FDA approval.

Precision angioplasty also improves the accuracy of choosing the right stent size and length. Because the vessel measurements ...

In a move that many hope will increase the dismally low numbers of patients undergoing primary angioplasty in India, lawmakers have declared that coronary stents are “essential medicines.” Prices for ...

April 26, 2012 (Novara, Italy) — Results of the first meta-analysis reporting on long-term clinical outcomes, out to three years, with drug-eluting stents (DES) compared with bare-metal stents in the ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- While the placement of stents in newly reopened coronary arteries has been shown to reduce the need for repeat angioplasty procedures, researchers from the Duke Clinical Research ...

Abbott introduces more flexible, easier to guide through the heart’s arteries drug eluting stent XIENCE Skypoint in India: Our Bureau, Bengaluru Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 17:10 ...

Heart attack patients who get an emergency angioplasty to open a blocked artery also should routinely have a stent inserted to keep the blood vessel from clogging again, a large study concludes.

Heart bypass surgery is considered the gold standard for most patients with left main coronary artery disease, one of the most serious types of heart disease and one that affects thousands. But a new ...

Angioplasty, a surgical procedure that opens blocked arteries, often involves placing a metal tube to hold arterial walls open and prevent them from collapsing once the arterial block is surgically ...

To further improve the results of stenting, attention was directed to other methods for the prevention of in-stent thrombosis. Initially, animal studies indicated that heparin-coated stents were ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Balloon angioplasty and stent implantation procedures in the early postoperative period after congenital heart ...

A new study finds that the use of drug-eluting stents after angioplasty bears little relationship to patients' predicted risk of restenosis (reblockage) of the treated coronary artery, the situation ...